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Grip Clip: Pencil Hero by Atticus Anderson and Blake Crowe
The soft plastic clip that slides onto your glasses and holds a pen or pencil. Help us save your pencil, time, and your peace of mind!
Successful!- 124% funded
- $7,455 pledged
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Apr 20, 2013
Quirky & cool, the video for Grip Clip tells a neat story without many KS campaign conventions. It's a fun product coming from a couple of Mechanical Engineering students at Stanford.
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SparkTruck: stories from a cross-country maker journey by Jason Chua
The Kickstarter-funded SparkTruck has completed its 15,323 mile roadtrip. Now it’s time to share the story through a short documentary.
Successful!- 111% funded
- $8,950 pledged
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Apr 14, 2013
SparkTruck is/was an amazing project: a cross-country odyssey focused on hands-on learning. The stories that emerged from the adventure are equally amazing. We love that film is one route the SparkTruck folks are taking.
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TJ* An Animatronic Puppet by Jeff Kessler
TJ* is an customizable robot performer / tech toy for you or your kids! Make his eyes and mouth move via servos over Arduino!
Successful!- 1,573% funded
- $40,281 pledged
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Apr 14, 2012
TJ* is an animatronic puppet that you can control and program yourself. Fun for the whole family!
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SparkLab: the educational build-mobile! by Jason Chua
A big red truck filled with cutting-edge maker tools that goes from school to school, bringing the joy of building back to kids.
Successful!- 125% funded
- $31,275 pledged
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Mar 24, 2012
Such a brilliant & vital project coming out of the Stanford Product Design Program and the d.school.
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Words in Perspective - A Unique Sculpture Design by Tom
A sculpture design that seems to show a jumble of fragments, but when viewed from two specific locations reveals hidden words.
Successful!- 433% funded
- $15,169 pledged
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Apr 23, 2012
Form & function: words that reveal themselves as you approach from different angles.
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MaKey MaKey: An Invention Kit for Everyone by Jay Silver
Ever played Mario on Play-Doh or Piano on Bananas? Alligator clip the Internet to your world and start inventing the future.
Successful!- 2,272% funded
- $568,106 pledged
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Jun 12, 2012
Magnificent example of "show don't tell" storytelling.
Also, an awesome project.
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Find the Starlight, Chapter One: Spark and Smoke by M
The beginning chapter of a story told through items sent to readers, left in public spaces, buried, hidden, and sometimes lost.
Successful!- 180% funded
- $4,501 pledged
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Feb 10, 2013
An interaction in mystery & action: building a story real-time with an audience. Great!
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T-REX by Drea Cooper/Zackary Canepari/Sue Johnson
A documentary about 17 year-old Claressa "T-Rex" Shields, the youngest woman - and one of the first - to ever box in the Olympics.
Successful!- 122% funded
- $64,507 pledged
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Aug 04, 2012
Lovely storytelling on multiple levels––great use of details to build tension! + a direct and clear ask. Check out the video & the project.
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ReadySet Solar Kit for iPad, iPhone, Android & more by Mike & Brian at Fenix International
ReadySet is a solar charger that can power up to 10 iPhones or run an iPad for 12 hours of continuous video-play on a single charge.
Successful!- 561% funded
- $112,362 pledged
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Aug 10, 2012
Stanford Product design alum. Straightforward, clear, concise communication.
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The Happiest Place : A Journey Across Bhutan by Ben Henretig
A documentary capturing an unprecedented, border-to-border crossing of Bhutan - one of the happiest places on earth.
Successful!- 249% funded
- $112,110 pledged
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Oct 14, 2012
Project from Ben Henretig, a StoryViz guest and founder of microdocumentaries. Beautiful photography and a fantastic voyage.
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"Strangers" Season 2 by Lea Thau
A storytelling podcast where people tell true life stories - frequently funny, occasionally heartbreaking, always interesting.
Successful!- 106% funded
- $21,253 pledged
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Oct 31, 2012
Great aural storytelling (airing on a great station: KCRW). Worth a listen.
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FlipBooKit - Mechanical Flipbook Art and Kit by shinymind
Unveiled at 2012 Maker Faire, these Amazing Mechanical Flip Books stole the show. Now we've developed a kit so you can build your own!
Successful!- 2,751% funded
- $137,567 pledged
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Oct 30, 2012
It's just cool.
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The Lamp Post Guild by Pathwright Press
Our mission is to teach professional illustration to aspiring artists and help them make a living doing what they love.
Successful!- 243% funded
- $34,087 pledged
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Nov 14, 2012
A group of talented illustrators who want to teach you how to draw.
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Magnet Comic: A Custom Magnetic & Dry-Erase Comic Strip by Erik Heumiller
A customizable comic strip that lets you create your own comics using magnetic characters and a dry-erase marker.
Successful!- 1,028% funded
- $66,835 pledged
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Funded
Dec 16, 2012
Dry erase comic strip. Yep.
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1 Second Everyday App by Cesar Kuriyama
Imagine a movie that includes every day of the rest of your life…
Successful!- 284% funded
- $56,959 pledged
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Dec 27, 2012
A visual diary of 1 second of your life.














